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Does anyone have a link to the old Memload program... I seem to remember seeing it here long ago.

I don't think Windows 9x would even work on new PC's. I just spent the last month being forced to use Windows 2000 because my WinMe computer went kaput. Never Again! Windows ME is my OS of choice. I got a "new" old computer, and now I'm back in business. I'd rather use Windows 3.1 (my second favorite OS) than be force to use 2000 or XP or anything else.

sorry for the long paragraph, I did put seperations in there, but I guess having javascript disabled removed the page breaks. OH well.. Oh yeah, thanks to technology and science, guess where are these superbugs came from? You guessed it, all the anti-bacterial soap. I give the human race another few decades before the next plague of untreatable Gonoreah or whatever else mutates first.

I'm with you 1000% ROTS... I've decided that all these technological "gizmos" are nothing but electronic leashes designed to keep myself in chains to "The System." The System being our corrupt elected offiicials, greedy corporations, and other morons who start endless wars in foreign countries without ever giving us a vote on it. So much for our so-called democracy... but anyway. You can tell I'm very disillusioned. Cell Phones are nothing but 24-hours-per-day, 365-days-per-year, government tracking devices. Not only that, but you get a nice cumulative dose of radiation into your brain every time you use them. People existed for millions of years without intrusive cell phones. The only difference now is that we're giving these devices to our kids, and thereby ruining their brains at a young age.... if my generation was corrupted on Nintendo and Sega Genesis, that's nothing compared to what's corrupting the youth today.... high speed internet porn at their fingertips, violent, life-like video game carnage, etc. Every game I see is just some sniper rifle, blast your enemies head off type game. It's sickening. I'm 31, I stopped playing video games in the late nineties. Today, I just view that stuff as an utter waste of life. I'm actually selling my remaning computers in a garage sale in about a month, and then I'll finally break this habit of computers once and for all... I'm NEVER buying another one of these evil things. People have told me that Windows 9x, or 2000, or whatever I use, is similar to an appliance like a toaster.... it does it's job, so you can keep using it for what I need. NO, computers are not like a toaster, which has a simple function and is designed to brown your bread. A computer, or more accurately, the software you think you "own" is nothing but an advertisement. You don't own anything on it, you're renting a license from Microsoft, or whomever else designed the software that runs your computer. In that sense, you're "TOASTER" is at the mercy of Microsoft or whomever... the big difference between a Toaster and Microsoft though, is that the toaster doesn't have built-in "planned obsoloscence." Meaning, the toaster is designed to last forever until the parts break. Your computer software is designed to have it's "lifecyle" (maybe a decade at most) and then it all starts falling apart. Time to upgrade... "but you better buy a newer computer to run the next version of Internet Explorer." *Wink* *Wink* Case in point, we have a forty year old toaster, works just like new. But we've gone through maybe 4 or 5 computers since roughly 1993 or 1994, when we purchased an IBM PS/2 (Windows 3.1, 80386 CPU, 33MHz, 4 MB Ram). Obviously, if I tried typing a document on that thing, nobody would be able to recieve or open them, but more importantly, I wouldn't be able to open anyone else's documents. What I'm left with is a glorified typewriter, if you can find the expense ink on ebay, that is. But how can you purchase ink on ebay, if you're still using Windows 3.1? You can't. Therefore, my ancient toaster is better than my ancient computer. I give MIcrosoft another 5 years of life at max, after that, it's into the dust bin of history, like IBM. Just look at TV's. They used to be simple. You plug in the power chord, plug in the antenna, and then you got free TV. I haven't watched any TV since they switched to digital a couple years ago. I'm not going to pay for any of those "bundles" that every other id*** thinks is a great deal. Seems like you have to bundle up your phone, internet, dishwasher, toilet, GPS, and every other stupid thing these days. Oh yeah, the GPS things they put in your car, it's just a way for the police to stop your vehicle when civilization is about to collapse in a few yeras. Don't think about running from the "work" camps they're going to set up, they can just stop your car with the flip of a switch. I have a collection of books, you know, those things on paper. Another reason why kindles and electronic books are dumb, is that once I own the physical book of paper, all I need is sunlight to read it!!!! With a kindle or whatever, the greedy companies are guaranteed a lifetime of people paying for electricity and batteries to run that crap. And when civilization ends from either lethal methane blast from the arctice, thereby speeding up the greenhouse effect, or buy bee collapse and the death spiral of the food chain, I'll still be able to read my books. But the Kindle slaves will have to pay a premium for the power to run those dumb things. I could go and and on...

Hi, every time I open SeaMonkey 2.2 there's a second tab that gets opened up which goes to Mozilla's Plug In Check page. It's really annoying, is there any way to prevent this. I always surf with Java and JavaScript disabled, and I also turned off "automatically check for updates" in the preferences. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. here's the link where it goes to everytime. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/

oh I just realized there is a "tab bar" in seamonkey, I just had to look under the options. :-) thanks though.

I just donated my old 866 MHz pentium III to the recyclers... I'm sure they just scrapped it. Hard drive was probably useable, but everything else I think they just toss. The guy working there told me they simply throw away the PC-100 sd ram. They don't even keep that anymore.

Is there a page of extensions, like a list of add-on's I can browse, I'm looking for something similar to Firefox 2's "new tab" extension. One of the flaws of Seamonkey 1 is that there's no toolbar button for creating a new tab. Any help would be appreciated.

I meant that Win9x is through, not exactly that my particular computer is through. Perish the thought. :-) Yes, it's like a good faithful toaster, but eventually I won't be able to adjust how "brown" I want my toast. By margins and stuff... I meant that the text didn't appear to wrap correctly, instead the line just continued to absolute edge of the page. It looked like something typed in Edit or another DOS program. It looked fine on my computer, but when people printed them on their newer machines, my resume looked like something from 1985. I never knew about that Word 97 - 2007 compatibility pack. That's interesting. I always thought Word 97 was the best. Cool, Dencorso, thanks. Is this file below all I need? Well, and Word 97 of course. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3 I'll give that open office a try sometime as well. thanks. Lastly, nobody knows if the default Abiword format (.abw) can be opened by MS Office? I guess I can just try this at the library sometime.

What are people's thoughts on this? Besides a literal handful of apps that I regularly check for updates, there's basically nothing "new" to add, or improve upon my existing system. The state it's in right now, is probably the state it will stay, until it eventually is not Internet worthy anymore. And then after that, if for some reason USB 2.0 storage devices go the way of the floppy disk, there will be even less I'll be able to do with this rock. I doubt using CD-R discs would be a practical way of exchanging files/documents or conducting any sort of business. So, until the last KernelEx browser is no longer safe, or until I can't use the USB 2.0 media, my computer is haning on by a thread. My computer is quickly approaching Windows 3.1 territory. And if anybody cares, the apps I'm still following for Windows ME are: 7zip, New-View Graphics Viewer, Trout Audio Player, ClamWin, XMPlay, Imagine graphics viewer, and PhotoFiltre. I've given up on IrfanView, FastStone, and XnView... at least on Windows ME... the previous versions seem to work faster, without all the useless bells and whistles. Sorry, sort of rambing there... Lastly, does anybody know if a document I type using AbiWord 2.4.6 (last version for Win9x) or Abiword 2.6.8 (KernelEx version), can it be opened by people using Microsoft Office. In case I need to send out resumes or some such thing. I'm in a predicament trying to find a word processor that at least can send nice looking documents, I'm not really worried about opening things though. I've sent resumes out using RTF format, using either wordpad, Jarte, or Abiword, but the margins and stuff never seem to come out right when printed. So I won't continue to use RTF format because it's lousy. I think Win9x uses an obsolete RTF version which doesn't translate well to newer ones. Anyways, all opinion are welcome from my fellow Win9x users. Okay, have a nice day.

thanks for the replies. I just realized that all that stuff is too complicated for me :-)

Hello, I'm wondering, and forgive my ignorance, but is there a way (using dial-up modems) to communicate to other computers without an "internet service provider." Can you by using just your phone line, set up some kind of Link, a way to communicate. I'm thinking ahead to when the internet is completely cloud based and you'll need the latest greatest, NSA-Back-Doored Windows Metro machine in order to talk to people. Is there a way I can transfer files, or send messages, or whatever, WITHOUT an internet service provider? For example, here's a page with DOS based "communication / web" software... would these apply under Win9x? http://www.reimagery.com/fsfd/comm1.htm

I remember the good old days of watching "Electric Circus" on Canadian TV and watching all the hot chicks dance around in short skirts. Good times. :-) The music was basically like techno and stuff. I don't think Techno music is around anymore... or even dance music for that matter. Techno must've been like the disco of the 90's.

I heard that the XBox will only work if you connect it to the internet as least once every 24 hours. How stupid is that? When I was a kid I had a Nintendo and Sega Genesis. You didn't have to connect them to the internet to keep them working. In regards to the FBI wanting a back door into all your software... well, unless they feel like tracking down the source code to all my ancient DOS, Windows 3.1, and Windows ME/98/95 software.... good luck with that. I'm a diehard Windows ME user. As I type this, I'm on dial-up and using Netscape 9 with no javascript. Newer operating systems don't exist in my world view. Everything is now designed to be accessible to outside parties, without the users permission. Technology and internet freedom reached it's peak back in the nineties. I remember surfing the web back in the mid nineties, when it was new, using Windows 3.1 and Netscape 1 or 2. THAT, back then, was the internet. You typed a word into Web Crawler or InfoSeek search engines and the results were mostly people's homepages, which were designed by actual people. Shock! Sure, the presentation was kinda quirky, but it was unique and fun. Well, now homepages are dead and gone, and you have stupid blogs which must be run according to the rules of Google/Wordpress or whomever, and they can delete them at will, without reason or notice. The internet back then was so exciting and fun. Everything was a homepage that somebody took the time to design from scratch. Everything now is swamped in consumerism, commericialism, and general BS. Sure, computers now are faster, but I thought the computers from back then were GOOD ENOUGH (mine is a Pentium III less than 1 GHz)... and I have fond memories of all the computer games from my youth. Everything now is just saturated in violence and bloodshed... it's sickening. I remember playing Number Munchers, the original Oregon Trail, and Carmen San Diego at school. Then as I got older I still played lots of DOS arcade games. I still got a few on this computer... if anybody remembers those PLBM Games by Kurt Dekker. He released all of them as freeware. I still play his Frogger and all those occasionally. I guess you could blame Doom or Wolfenstien 3D for the gore in games nowadays. Getting back to the back door in all software, I will keep using my ancient technology, and hopefully fly under their radar.

I think it wouldn't hurt to have a couple on-demand scanners for Win9x. But anything that scans real-time would probably be completely pointless. Clamwin, F-Prot for DOS, older version of AVG and Antivir. You can find them on Oldapps or Filehippo.com I won't be downloading any versions of Clamwin byeond 0.97.6. The brand new ClamWin is like 20 Mb bigger than the last. Huge jump in file size, and probably the memory footprint and the time it takes to scan as well. so, my computer has virus protection from the ancient DOS viruses (using F-prot) all they way up to newer viruses thanks to ClamWin. But I won't be upgrading them anymore because they never find anything anyway.

Just some things to ponder..... The .zip archive format has been around since the late eighties, or early nineties. When Philip Katz enhanced the .arc format for compressing files. He was then sued by System Enhancement Associates and so he changed the name from PKARC to PKZIP. Thus, the zip format was born. It's been the defacto archive format, universally supported every since... and that was oh, about, 1993. Sure, there's been rival formats, like LZH, ARJ, RAR, and now 7zip. But since zip is so widely used, and the format has a good speed to compression ratio, none of those other formats have been able to replace ZIP. Now, you could use zip in a DOS command prompt, you could use it on Windows 3.1, Win9x, and everything since. Sure, the zip format has changed a little (with newer Deflate methods) but it's still pretty much the same. I can use Info Zip's executables on any platform. I can still unzip a file made from Windows 7 or 8 and open it using DOS. Another thing is the picture formats have hardly changed. Jpeg format has been around like twenty-five years. They tried to "improve" it by creating the Jpeg2000 format. But it resulted in much larger files and not much noticeable improvement in quality. Might as well just use TIF or PNG formats. The majority of images on the net are using the same format that was around in the days of DOS and windows 3.1 MP3 format has hardly changed a bit. I can still listen to MP3's using any older Win9x program. Well, movie files are a pain in the butt with all the different "codecs"... this is definitely one area where older systems are at a disadvantage, but with the right software you can convert newer files into playable videos for DOS, Windows 3.1, Win9x. Also, proprietary formats like Microsoft Word documents and PDF files, both of which I don't like and try not to use, are part of the whole "planned obsolescence" scheme of forcing users to "upgrade" to the latest and greatest every few years. Just to make Microsoft and Adobe richer than they already are. I don't see what is great about any of the upgrades. When I was sending resumes to potential employers I sent my resume in RTF format. Does anyone know if MS Office will open Abiword documents???? I'd really like to know. Because I can do more formatting and stuff with Abiword than I can using a basic RTF or Wordpad document. But anyway, the point is, I could still send people my resume using Windows ME and they could still open it. In reality I could log onto Microsoft Word 6.0 using Windows 3.1 and type a paper or resume that looks just as good, and with all the options and features that most people use, as the latest "Office 2012." The former program was simple, elegant and efficient, and it runs lightly. The latter is just bells and whistles, bloatware, with useless hieroglyphic symbols to make it look newer. They both do the same exact thing. And I prefer the look of Word 6.0 to all the newer office programs. I can play audio CD's and burn them and rip them on my Windows ME machine. I can burn data CD's and iso files using Windows ME. The audio CD hasn't changed since the 1980's. It's the same piece of technology for the last 30 years. Why do I need a brand new computer from 2012 to read/play something that is technology from the 80's? Lastly, I'm not a computer whiz or anything, but I know how to and I'm comfortable with formatting my computer in DOS, and reinstalling Windows 9x. I also have Windows 2000 and I mess around with that OS as well. But because of "product activation" I've never bothered with XP and newer systems to reinstall the OS. But I guess that's beside the point. Basically, I grew up in the DOS and Windows 3.1 era, and I'm still actually living in it, LOL, seeing as how I'm using Windows ME.... and I'll continue using Windows ME. Because I think it is the zenith of Microsoft Windows. The most intuitive, easy, yet powerful user interface. I didn't like the newer version of Windows that I've tried..... (Windows 2000 was good, Windows XP was okay and I like it, Vista was bad, 8 is totally terrible, haevn't tried 7 because the stores around here don't sell it anymore. They only sell Windows 8. Blech..) I think it just boils down to the following... I'm set in my ways, I thought the newer versions of Windows were needlessly complicated, and I didn't like them. So I'm sticking with Widnows ME :-) Oh and, the internet is still decent if you turn off javascript. I'm using K-Meleon 1.5 and I can still check my Gmail and read the news. So that's good enough.

Because.... the newer computers I used were barely any faster. Sure, the CPU speed a lot faster, but actually doing things on them doesn't seem any quicker. If you account for the bloat, and general poor user-interface of newer Windows versions, I can get things done easier and faster on Windows ME.

Thanks you guys... I will try it when I re-install Windows ME again... which will be soon. :-)

try using less RAM, or different RAM. if there's two sticks of RAM, try taking one of them out. then see what happens. for something that old, could require pc100 low density, not pc133 ram... even though they say pc133 will work and that they're interchangeable... which i think is a crock.

I have a dilemma. I purchased a US Robotics PCI 56k modem for my computer. I opened the computer and installed the modem. Upon rebooting, the "Add New Hardware Wizard" appeared and asked me to specify the location of the drivers. I selected the CD-ROM in the D: drive. The installation was successful. Modem worked fine. The problem is, I reformatted my computer and re-installed Windows. The modem wasn't automatically detected during windows setup.... so I figured I'll just grab the CD-Rom with the drivers, then install them. Unfortunately the program that automatically runs when the CD-Rom is inserted doesn't have an option for installing the drivers. There's only some "accessories" software to install, which I don't need, and the user manual. But no option to "install" the modem drivers. I clicked on my control panel and looked inside the "Add New Hardware" icon. Windows doesn't detect the modem, and I don't know about the "devices" or whatever. So anyway, what I did was..... I reformated the hard drive again, removed the modem, then installed Windows again. After installing Windows, I turned the computer off and put the modem back in. I turned the computer back on, and Windows detected the "New Hardware" and I followed the directions, placed the US Robotics cd into the drive, then my modem worked again. I'm just wondering.... for future reference, is there a way to get the drivers off the cd..... or evertime I want to re-install Windows I have to take the modem out beforehand? Silly question I know.... I don't mind taking out the modem every time I want to re-install Windows. Just wondering if there's a less involved way.

http://www.navsoft.cz/products.htm for DOS, but work on my Windows ME machines.

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I've never played that game, so I can't be sure. maybe the game settings need to be adjusted... I remember in Warcraft II there was a way to adjust the mouse and keyboard sensitivity, so that the screen wouldn't scroll way too quickly to one side. Perhaps one of your computers is a lot faster than the other? There could be lots of reasons. have you tried going into the options menu?

all free stuff: http://www.oldversion.com/windows/tiny-personal-firewall-2-0-9 Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.9 http://www.clamwin.com/ ClamWin Antivirus http://www.sac.sk/files.php?d=1&l=F F-Prot Antivirus for DOS download file #78 "fp-316f.zip" extract to directory of your choice... then download & extract the file #79 "fp-def.zip" to same directory, overwrite older files when prompted to start program, you need to type into the command line "F-Prot /old" ...just so you know, the Windows version of F-Prot was never free, but the DOS one was http://www.oldapps.com/ Zone Alarm Firewall 3.7 version 1.0 is free, which can be found at Oldapps.com

I'll try that out, it seems to work fine right now however... :-)